Role of Security in protecting the Assets of an Organization

Role of Security in protecting the Assets of an Organization

Introduction

Security in organizations ensures that leaders, supervisors and front-line workers work together to maximize safety performance. Organizations that focus on safety do more than look for ways to reduce accidents. The organizations that have a focus on security work in identifying and reducing exposure. The exhibition takes place at the interface where the working conditions, facilities, systems and technologies interact with people's activities. Hundreds of organizations worldwide have been successful in employee involvement and efforts to improve security at all levels, initiatives and organizational activities. The change in focus events (accidents / incidents) to focus on exposure has produced results unsurpassed in safety performance in these organizations. The issue of asset security in organizations today covers an area increasing, both because of the consequences that the errors in the organizational setting may be at the level of the individual, and the social costs that they bring. For years, several studies indicate that it can produce errors of various kinds, as well as upstream there are often organizational dynamics related to the design of work processes. Drawing on observation of the daily work in one of the places where the most frequently occurring problems and where the greater the impact of these problems for staff and patients, or the operating room, the volume explores the different social elements and organizational which may form such critical elements: communication, specific professional expertise, familiarity in the use of available technologies, the time and space in which activities take place, the management of the team action.

Discussion

The security of organizations is designed to promote the protection of personnel, assets and facilities organizations with preventive action and / or reactive, ensuring through their skills, knowledge and protective systems through business continuity. The organizational security has subsystems, such as electronic security, physical security, facility security, surveillance, fire protection, security of assets, occupational safety, security of data and records, document security and other sectors focused on the scope of central organizational security. These modes are interconnected or engage in the "security policy of the organization" that defines structures, ways and means operative to safety within the organization.

Organizational security is a broader and more appropriate designation than "corporate security", since the organizational concept applies to all private or public institutions, are any economic activities or not, regardless of their form of incorporation and object.

The field goal and organizational security is the total protection of people, assets and facilities of the organization, ensuring through technical knowledge, systems, processes, products or facilities, integrity and business continuity, of persons and property exist.

Currently, organizational security is a vast field for research and applications, with subsystems such as surveillance, private security, electronic security, occupational safety, information security, personal safety, fire safety, facility security, asset security and other applicable in every particular organization. The security function has the mission of protecting people and property against theft, fire, flood, prevent strikes, bombings, and in general, all obstacles that may hinder ...